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Practice-centered e-science: a practice turn perspective on cyberinfrastructure design

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Shaowen Bardzell,

Geoffrey FoxAuthors Info & Claims

GROUP '10: Proceedings of the 2010 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1880071.1880119

Published: 07 November 2010 Publication History

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Cyberinfrastructure is a rapidly growing area of global research and funding with a history of emphasizing the role technology will play in changing scientific work practices. This paper proposes a practice-theoretic perspective that is informative to cyberinfrastructure research and design. To illustrate the relevancy of a practice-theoretic perspective to cyberinfrastructure, this paper presents a critical review of 160 cyberinfrastructure research papers and reports published in the last decade through a perspective of embodied practice. After relating common cyberinfrastructure research themes through a focus on embodied practice, we propose a series of early implications for design aimed at incorporating the lessons of embodied practice into the design and development of future cyberinfrastructure applications.

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Stefanidi EBentvelzen MWoźniak PKosch TWoźniak MMildner TSchneegass SMüller HNiess J(2023)Literature Reviews in HCI: A Review of ReviewsProceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3544548.3581332(1-24)Online publication date: 19-Apr-2023
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Correia AParedes HFonseca B(2018)Reframing Taxonomy Development in Collaborative Computing Research: A Review and Synthesis of CSCW Literature 2003–2010Collaboration and Technology10.1007/978-3-319-99504-5_5(42-59)Online publication date: 8-Aug-2018
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